livi longer, the costs attributed to that with less workers, our population is not growing at much to mike catastrophic. if they don't do something realistic to curb spending problem. lou: as of tonight it looks like there is nothing ealistic going on in washington d.c. imagine that. it is s money and where it goes. you heard me talk for years about importae of our middle class and respect for those who work. no matter what the job. next, a terrific author wse new book celebrates the workers of what she calls hidden american coal. coal miners are part of what my next guest calls the hidden american, the people we seldom notice, but who do theobs that make our lives livable and make this nation work, joining me now is jean-marie it is great to have you with us, congratulations, a terrific book, i love the fact that you focus on the people who as you suggestion, with the title, we don't think enough about who we don't resct enough who we don't express enough gratitude for, what made you start on this book. >> the notion that we're really disconnected. this election cycle, these are people wh